FEBRUARY 20 – SRF DIARY – DIVINE LOVE God understands you when everyone else misunderstands you. He is the lover who cherishes you always, no matter what your mistakes. Others give you their affection for a while and then forsake you, but He abandons you never. In countless ways God is daily seeking your love. …
Category: spirituality
Feb 20
I am too old!
I am old. I mean really really old. The age I refer to is not the physical body. I refer to my mental attitude in reference to the world I am at the age where ” you can’t teach an old dog new tricks “. Some people try to teach me new things in religion. …
Feb 20
I am too old!
I am old. I mean really really old. The age I refer to is not the physical body. I refer to my mental attitude in reference to the world I am at the age where ” you can’t reach an old dog new tricks “. Some people try to teach me new things in religion. …
Feb 20
Ramana Maharshi – best to ask him
Ramana Maharshi uses words like the heart. He talks about reflection. He uses aham vritti We imagine we understand what he means by heart. Truth is you either have to ask him for clarification or ask someone at that level Your own imaginative mind will create a false heart – either something in the chest …
Feb 19
His tests
FEBRUARY 19 – SRF DAIRY – DIVINE LOVE God’s love is so all-embracing that no matter what wrongs we have done, He forgives us. If we love Him with all our hearts He wipes out our karma. —Paramahansa Yogananda, “ Self-Realization Magazine “ Yes. We want our sins forgiven. But if you love him so …
Feb 19
The goal
“If we are attuned to God, our perception is limitless, pervading everywhere in the oceanic flow of the Divine Presence. When the Spirit is known, and when we know ourselves as Spirit, there is no land or sea, no earth or sky — all is He. The melting of everything in Spirit is a state …
Feb 18
Inner peace!
“Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.” ― Paramahansa Yogananda That is needed! The greatest people did not have money v Vivekananda Ramkrishna Paramhamsa Mohangiri Maharaj Kevalgiri Maharaj Ramana Maharshi Neem Karoli Baba Yet the world worships – rich people Powerful people Famous …
Feb 16
Babaji on suffering!
I do not do anything, it is god who does it. . Whenever people thanked Baba for his act of grace, He would say….I do not do anything, it is god who does it. Baba would often say that following the spiritual path was like “walking on a sword’s edge” and such person have to …
Feb 16
How to live in life
To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want to change anyone, set a better example. Show more kindness, more understanding, more love. That has a sure effect. To those who are not kind, show kindness. To those who are mean, show …
Feb 16
How to make fast progress part 2
So we have bad circumstances. Why? It was so ordained. A way to Make progress. But we get frustrated. We try to change it. We fight it. Cry about it. Get overwhelmed. But why? No doubt they are overwhelming. And you must overcome it. But not broken emotionally. And Therein Lies the challenge. If you …
Feb 16
Who makes fast progress
So if you meditate daily, truly earnest in seeking God, don’t be afraid of suffering It helps in many ways. It is your true friend It helps burn karma. Once that layer is burnt the veil that hides a god disappears It exposes your flaws. Your desires for the world is revealed. Your anger, frustration …
Feb 15
The unhappy mind
What is wrong with the mind? Everything. The problem with the entire world revolves around the mind When unhappy – it feels miserable When it’s wishes gets fulfilled – it gets restless soon and starts looking for more things. Hence – drugs and intoxication. When wishes not fulfilled – it gets desperate and then depressed …
Feb 15
Atharva Veda shanti
ॐ द्यौः शान्तिरन्तरिक्षं शान्तिः पृथिवी शान्तिरापः शान्तिरोषधयः शान्तिः । वनस्पतयः शान्तिर्विश्वेदेवाः शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्तिः सर्वं शान्तिः शान्तिरेव शान्तिः सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ Om Dyauh Shaantir-Antarikssam Shaantih Prthivii Shaantir-Aapah Shaantir-Ossadhayah Shaantih | Vanaspatayah Shaantir-Vishvedevaah Shaantir-Brahma Shaantih Sarvam Shaantih Shaantir-Eva Shaantih Saa Maa Shaantir-Edhi | Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih || Meaning: 1: Om, …
Feb 15
How to chant?
True chanting occurs after you have experienced “God”. Until then you are chanting to an imagination of your mind. Even that is beneficial if done with sincere love I have many dance, jump and chant for God. They follow this – ISKCON because that is what Chaitanya mahaprabhu did that What they Fail to grasp …
Feb 15
Don’t ask for gifts – happy Valentine’s Day!
All my questions have been answered, not through man but through God. He is, He is. It is His spirit that talks to you through me. It is His love that I speak of. Thrill after thrill! Like gentle zephyrs His love comes over the soul. Day and night, week after week, year after year, …
Feb 12
Kurma avatar
One Of the avatar of Vishnu was Kurma – tortoise He was part of Samudra manthan. When the deva and danava decided to churna the ocean of milk , they used Vasuki As the rope, mandara as the churn and they needed someone strong to support it. So Vishnu appeared as the tortoise – upper …
Feb 12
Funny – but we are NOT amused
A God who cannot smile, could not have created this humorous universe Sri Aurobindo What more can we say. For a yogi – it it is the love of God that created the world. It was made perfect. It is perfect. Humans messed it up !
Feb 12
What do we get from a saint?
Exactly what we desire! Here is an example One Ailment, Different Treatment 🙏 🙏 . One day Baba was sitting on a parapet by the roadside when a sadhu named Balak came and offered pranaam to him. Baba said to Balak, “What’s the trouble?” Balak told him that he had been suffering from stomach pain …
Feb 11
All the information
Is worth nothing Experience the divine self! It can’t be described Can’t be compared It is love It is without a second There is no ego yet does all in the world It is meek – hides. But yet stronger than all the forces put together. After all it caused the Big Bang Wise can …
Feb 11
Two liberated people
Here is a view point from two liberated people Yogananda said The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun. Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Ramana …
Feb 11
The path
There is only one way to reach God. Follow what you like. You may say you want to follow the path of gyana . Read books. But to experience or know God is to know how to ascend. Or knowing the path Or you want to do karma yoga – the path of renouncing the …
Feb 10
God is equal – but we aren’t
FEBRUARY 10 – SRF DIARY – DIVINE LOVE The lord wants us to escape the delusive world. He cries for us, for He knows how hard it is for us to gain His deliverance. But you have only to remember that you are His child. Don’t pity yourself. You are loved just as much by …
Feb 09
Blogs
To really benefit from blog – one must read it again and again Why? This is a whole new way of thinking and life style. Like driving a car – it takes practice. Repeated practice to get there. It is not easy. One must do it again and again till the mind is adjusted. Thinking …
Feb 09
Renunciation
The very thought of renunciation of things – is scary. Giving up everything. Money home family. They are all varying degrees of renunciation. From Yogananda FEBRUARY 9 – SRF DIARY – INNER RENUNCIATION Renunciation is not negative but positive. It isn’t the giving up of anything except misery. One should not think of renunciation as …
Feb 09
Surrender
Results are instant but takes decades to learn how to surrender Why? We have a mind , intellect, chitt , ego and past habits ( mana, buddhi, Chitta, ahamkar, antaskarana) Every part of it must surrender to God. So you read the blogs and scripture. What happens, you want to meditate, read the wonders of …
Feb 09
The heart
Before you can understand the above statement, you have to understand the heart There are several possibilities Something that is emotional The heart in the left of the chest The hridaya chakra in the right of the chest Anahata chakra in the center of chest The heart of shiv. Obviously it is not 1 or …
Feb 08
There are many layers
But first you have to introspect. In mediation. Silently observe where thoughts come from. Where the feeling of happiness arises from. And then pass through layers after layers of happiness Then suddenly you realize it is from the real you Right now if you eat something you like. You constantly think you and pizza are …
Feb 07
Failure
So this is true – for example when you don’t pass, or don’t get healed quickly etc. and you resolve that you will next time do better in exam etc. That is the general interpretation. Like everything when Yogi make a statement there are many layers that requires explanation So here goes. With failure We …
Feb 07
Newspaper and social media
BEWARE THIS MAYBE THE WORST SIN AGAINST SPIRITUAL PROGRESS Lies. Rumors. All for selfish agenda. It has led innocent people to suicide, wrong people to be apprehended and can destroy nations. This is what Yogananda said …”Worldly minds are morbid; they thrive on sensationalism and often distort the facts or exaggerate the words of others, …
Feb 07
What does the love of God look like?
Whispers from Eternity: Day 7 – Sunday, February 7th from “I beheld Thee hiding in a flower” “I looked at a flower and prayed. Suddenly, O Spirit, I beheld Thee hiding there. It exhaled the perfume of Thy presence. The blush of Thine innocence colored its petals; the gold of Thy wisdom shone in its …
Feb 06
Misunderstood
Karma yogi Someone who has given up fruits of his action. That is karma yoga. Simple ! Not quite. Everything we do , we want and aim towards the results You study. You want To pass – failed from karma yoga standpoint You see pizza You want it to taste good. And when it does …
Feb 06
Easy in theory
Ramana maharshi and yoga Vasistha Claim the world is an illusion From their awareness of self consciousness, I am sure it is true. But for those caught in this world it is Real and a night mare. Sadly pinching ourselves can’t wake up. Maybe a liberated Guru can do that So what is the solution. …
Feb 05
Can you solve this problem?
The same is true when people try to solve the question of God They try to fill in gaps in their logic with pure fantasy. Why not just meditate?
Feb 05
Equality versus discriminatory wisdom
Nowadays in many countries they talk about being tolerant and having equality White / Caucasians must be tolerant to other African American or Hindu to Muslims or African American to Caucasians, tolerant to gay etc Then when they can’t settle it based on culture or humanity, they bring in religion. Now religion is very dogmatic …
Feb 05
Ignorance and stupidity
The Indian word for ignorance is agyana. And stupidity is murkh To read books , memorize shloka, and listening to lectures etc can really never get rid of ignorance. You can accumulate information that way. You read my blog. You accumulate information. If you smart, you ponder on it. And say oh this is what …
Feb 05
What is pure consciousness like?
Many things. But there highest manifestation of pure consciousness is pure love. It is love. When you reach there , you don’t seek love in material things or another person In fact when we “love” someone it is an error because we stopped seeing the divine everywhere and changed it someone In that state – …
Feb 04
Boredom
Constant happiness causes boredom and then bad behavior / insanity of a sort Constant anguish is unbearable Let’s say you enjoy sex. You just can’t keep doing it all day. Or you like pasta pizza dosa. You Eat daily and soon your mind will seek something different The mind is programmed in that Why? The …
Feb 04
The battle
So Once your soul is sufficiently purified. No longer craving material things. It can then go into samadhi. Staying in self consciousness. However with force of past habit the material things crop up again. Although not binding So one must make Meditation a habit. Meditate for hours and days together. Till it is national. This …
Feb 03
Can God be seen?
You can see the great saints who are in tune with God. They can help guide and take us there But what about God ? Can he be seen? Sadly the answer is no. Well not really. In one aspect yes. Since God himself has become the universe in that sense yes. But some he …
Feb 03
From the photograph
Can you tell the guru from the photograph? Well we know it is Yogananda. But how? Clothes? His face? His eyes? How do you know? How does one enlightened person recognize another enlightened one? Well they have a few yoga methods. No dialogue or question is needed. Since they are known automatically to the enlightened …
Feb 03
Sequence of events
One cannot always Find a Guru easily. But a Guru must appear when you don’t desire the world but desire God. So how do you get rid of worldly desires? But good company – the highest to achieve – is difficult. You can’t Recognize or know who is good company. We err Those pure souls …
Feb 03
Are you guilty?
Thinking of money – how often do we waste our time thinking about it ? Worrying about it? Wanting it? Wanting to buy things with it? Wanting to travel using it? Wanting to enjoy Life with it? Do you see the evil inherent in money. Invariably it corrupts the mind with desires for material things. …
Feb 02
Autism part 2
So my article – it is not meant to talk about those who have the medical condition autism But it is the best term I could think of how un coperative and un reasonable and relentless our mind can be and drive us insane Those who have dealt with autism can recognize the Pain and …
Feb 02
Autism
So we all are autistic. Trust me – we are. In our own stupid vestigial way our mind is autistic. How? We keep repeating again and again – in our Own minds – idiotic stupid demands. Without those demands the mind is never happy. And finally we cave in To the demands We have built …
Feb 02
Not to lose hope
A powerful statement. All we need is constant effort to destroy the mind What do only a few succeed? Because others gave up. They did not try continuously. Without break / pause Worth if in the end Why be a beggar when you’re a king? Why toss Around with emotions when your the fountain of …
Feb 01
What should a Guru look like?
A saint wearing ochre color robes? Anyone can do that and does it? He should be a avadhoot – minimum clothes maybe naked. Let me look for some infants !! He should be a rich person but detached – how are you going to know if he is detached? Ram cried for days together when …
Feb 01
Is God looking after me? Do I have his grace?
Here are some very reassuring words from Ramana Maharshi Yogananda said “ it takes very very good Karma to be interested in God / liberation “ 7.7 billion people. Hardly a few are interested Of those few only a few are genuine Of those few genuine, only a few will get a living Guru who …
Feb 01
Shakti awakening types
There are three main disciplines in it; “divyachar” for practitioners of satva-guna, “virachar” for practitioners of rajo-guna and “pashvachar” for practitioners of tamo-guna. The activities of unqualified practitioners of “Virachar” and specially “pashvachar” have badly damaged the image of tantra and have earned bad name for it. Besides the tantric scriptures it has also been …
Feb 01
Upanishad
There are many Upanishad Upa means near Shad sitting near The wisdom that is obtained by sitting near a Guru. There are 108 Well to know the Upanishad you have to sit at the feet of an enlightened Guru. There is no other way So in the name itself it tells you everything So the …
Jan 31
Every letter is important
What great people say, every letter is important! Reality shines forth – this is not an allegory What has happened is that – Many of the traditional shlokas – they have been repeated Orally What happens is that – some not very bright scholars often mis hear or mis speak and eventually minor errors occur. …
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